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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...
Last year the 30-year-old city machine in San Antonio, led by suave, grey Mayor Charles Kennon Quin, got tired of hearing Maury Maverick (who beat Quin for Congress in 1934) tell the country what a civic pesthole his city was. They put up a hard-hitting attorney named Paul Kilday, knocked Maury Maverick out of Congress...
Left out of account by observers who figured that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt...
...Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig only once and then subtly to quote from an inscription on a Danzig building: "The high things must be kept high and the low things low." His hearers could only guess...
...Baron Louis, not so nimble as Brothers Alphonse and Eugene, was caught by the Nazi invasion of Austria. His captors insisted that the Rothschild relatives ransom him by making good more of the bank's losses. Original demand was rumored to be $10,000,000, but Rothschilds are hard bargainers, and the Nazis are lucky if they got half that...